Building QoS into distributed systems
Subtitle: IFIP TC6 WG6.1 Fifth International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQOS '97), 21-23 May 1997, New York, USA
By: edited by Andrew Campbell and Klara Nahrstedt
Contributors: Campbell, Andrew, 1959-; Nahrstedt, Klara; International Federation for Information Processing
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: IFIP - The International Federation for Information Processing; IFIP - The International Federation for Information Processing
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780387351704; 9781475746921
Subjects: Electronic data processing; Distributed processing; Quality control; Congresses; Computer Science; Computer networks; Reliability; Image and Speech Processing Signal
Description: This volume contains the Fifth International Workshop, Quality of Service, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and held in May 1997, Columbia University New York USA. This book is essential reading for engineers and R & D students, and for researchers in multimedia networking areas.
Notes: "Published ... on behalf of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Keynote Address; title: 1 Programming telecommunication networks; title: One Mobile Communication; title: 2 Adaptive service in mobile computing environments; title: 3 Quality of service support in a mobile environment: an approach based on tuple spaces; title: 4 IPv6 + MOBILE-IP = MRSVP = Internet Cellular Phone?; title: 5 QoS challenges for next generation mobile middleware; title: 6 Link error impact on MPEG video over wireless broadband networks; title: 7 QoS support for mobile computing; title: Two Traffic Management; title: 8 Worst case arrivals of leaky bucket constrained sources: the myth of the on-off source; title: 9 Guaranteeing multiple cell loss classes in shared ATM output buffer; title: 10 Comprehensive queueing analysis for partial buffer system with Discrete Markovian Arrival Processes; title: 11 Real-time estimation of link capacity in multimedia networks; title: Three QoS Routing; title: 12 Quality-of-service routing for traffic with performance guarantees; title: 13 QoS based multicast routing for multimedia communications; title: 14 Issues in supporting quality of service in mobile ad hoc networks; title: Four QoS and Video Systems; title: 15 Supporting multiple-tier QoS in a video bridging application; title: 16 Playout management of interactive video; title: an adaptive approach; title: 17 A temporal QoS based CPU scheduling model for multimedia applications in general purpose operating systems; title: 18 Adaptive video applications for non-QoS networks; title: Five QoS Management; title: 19 Integrated CPU and network-I/O QoS management in an endsystem; title: 20 Service-tailored QoS management in high performance networks; title: 21 Application design for cooperative QoS management; title: 22 On the specification of EtE QoS control; title: 23 Using attribute-managed storage to achieve QoS; title: 24 QoS for Distributed Object Computing Middleware; title: Fact or Fiction?; title: 25 Quality of Service: Where are we?; title: Six Distributed Object Computing; title: 26 Integrating QoS restrictions into the process of service selection; title: 27 Quality of service (QoS) in communication APIs; title: 28 Managing systemic meta-data for creating QoS-adaptive CORBA applications; title: 29 Support components for quality of service in distributed environments: monitoring service; title: 30 A QoS configuration systems for distributed applications; title: Seven Advanced Reservation; title: 31 Sharing resources through advance reservation agents; title: 32 Providing a scalable video-on-demand system using future reservation of resources and multicast communications; title: Eight QoS-based Transport Protocols; title: 33 QoS mapping between user's preference and bandwidth control for video transport; title: 34 On end-to-end QoS mapping; title: 35 Transport QoS over unreliable networks: no guarantees, no free lunch!; title: 36 QoS-based transport; title: 37 Reservations about reservations; title: Nine QoS Mapping; title: 38 Simplified method for session coordination using multi-level QoS specification and translation; title: 39 Quantitative QoS-mapping: a unifying approach; title: 40 QoS translation and admission control for MPEG video; title: 41 Towards specifying QoS-enabling software architectures; title: Ten QoS Adaptation; title: 42 Terminal QoS of adaptive applications and its analytical computation; title: 43 End-to-end quality of service control adaptive applications; title: 44 Adaptive QoS in multimedia systems; title: 45 A dynamic QoS adaptation mechanism for networked virtual reality; title: 46 Predictable file access latency for multimedia; title: Index of contributors; title: Keyword index.